There’s actually a history to the change in terminology, and it’s mostly because of Steve Jobs and the Apple Macintosh.
They were largely focused on bringing many character styles over to their new-at-the-time system, and apparently thought it would save pixel space on their limited size 512 pixel wide menu if they just called ‘Typeface’ as simply ‘Font’
The AI is correct according to that definition.
But the way I see it, if everybody calls it a font, then it’s a font.
Never worked with a typewriter or printing press I see.
The experts defined the terminology, it’s just you purely digital people that forgot the original terminology.
But language evolves
There’s actually a history to the change in terminology, and it’s mostly because of Steve Jobs and the Apple Macintosh.
They were largely focused on bringing many character styles over to their new-at-the-time system, and apparently thought it would save pixel space on their limited size 512 pixel wide menu if they just called ‘Typeface’ as simply ‘Font’
And so it came to be, and it stuck.
Language works by majority consent though.
how TF are you on lemmy with a typewriter?!?!?!?!
It’s complicated…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE